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Vortex nucleation through edge states in finite Bose-Einstein condensates

Eric Akkermans, Sankalpa Ghosh

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0310715

Abstract

We study the vortex nucleation in a finite Bose-Einstein condensate. Using a set of non-local and chiral boundary conditions to solve the Schrodinger equation of non-interacting bosons in a rotating trap, we obtain a quantitative expression for the characteristic angular velocity for vortex nucleation in a condensate which is found to be 35% of the transverse harmonic trapping frequency.

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